The Marin Greens are excited that co-chair Marnie Glickman is running for Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District in the November 2013. We hope you support her campaign. Visit her website at http://www.marnieglickman.org.
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Thanks to all of the Marin Greens who attended the Forward On Climate/No KXL Pipeline Rally on February 17th in San Francisco. We had a great time and enjoyed the ferry ride.
Join us in San Francisco on February 17th to rally and march in solidarity with the huge Forward on Climate demonstration in Washington DC. Please download our new flyer for the rally. Marin Greens, over 50 organizations and thousands of citizens will encircle the State Department Office at One Market Plaza. We demand that the Department reject Keystone XL permit. The way forward on climate is clear: President Obama must start cutting carbon from today’s biggest polluters—power plants—and stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to avoid adding more carbon pollution tomorrow. President Obama understands the severity of the climate crisis and can lead the world to solve it, but he needs to hear from his constituents that this is a priority. PUBLIC NOTICE: REQUIREMENTS: Candidates must live in MMWD’s Division III, which includes San RESPONSIBILITIES: The Board of Directors sets the policies for the activities and PROCESS: Applications are available online at www.marinwater.org and from the FILING DEADLINE: A signed hard copy of the completed application must be Take action at www.occuptthecpd.org. Sign the petition at http://www.change.org/petitions/open-up-the-2012-presidential-debates. All presidential candidates who have qualified for placement on enough state ballots to win the Electoral College and the Presidency of the U.S. must be included in the presidential debates. Libertarian Party candidates Gary Johnson and Jim Gray, along with Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, have qualified for enough state ballots and are receiving taxpayer dollars in the form of FEC matching funds. American taxpayers and voters have a clear interest in having their ideas, positions, and voices included in the major presidential and vice presidential debates.
I’m voting for Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for President of the United States. Dr. Jill Stein is a mother, physician, teacher and pioneering environmental health advocate. She graduated from both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. Jill worked in Massachusetts on improving her state’s health policies and witnessed the ability of big money to stop good, progressive laws. She entered Green electoral politics to create a clean election law in the state. Jill twice ran for Governor of Massachusetts and even debated Mitt Romney on television. She is running for President to talk about another way, a Green way, to govern our country. I am proud of her activism and helped persuade her to run for President. Cheri Honkala, the Green Party’s vice presidential candidate, has been a leading advocate for the homeless for 25 years. Cheri co-founded the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. She’s led marches, conducted demonstrations and set up tent cities. Cheri ran for Sheriff of Philadelphia in 2011. She is the first and only Sheriff candidate nationwide who pledged to stop home foreclosures by the big banks. Cheri entered politics after she and her son became homeless after the car they had been living in was demolished by a drunk driver. Cheri and Jill are campaigning across the country in solidarity with the Occupy movement, debt forgiveness movement and the union movement. Today, they were on the streets at the Occupy Wall Street 1st anniversary in New York City. Last week, Jill marched with striking teachers in Chicago. Let me now introduce you to the Greens. Greens believe that we are in the middle of two catastrophic crises that require immediate political action and non-violent civil disobedience. Greens believe that climate change is the defining crisis of our generation. Nearly 200 species are going extinct every day. 80% of US farmland is now in drought. Extreme weather is increasing food prices and decreasing water supplies. Greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, not decreasing. Greens want to end the economic crisis in the United States. Nearly one in two Americans live in or near poverty. 25% of US children under 5 live in poverty, 42.7 % of black children and 36% of Latino children. We are Greens, and not members of other political parties, because Greens have a unique approach to politics. Greens are not satisfied with tinkering around the edges of our problems. Greens believe we must have a political transformation in the United States. Greens know that all of our problems are interconnected and the solutions must be interconnected too. We share the Greens ten key values that are in our party’s platform:
Greens are campaigning for a Green New Deal, an emergency program, to stop both the climate change crisis and the economic crisis. We think it’s much better than the policies advocated by the Democratic and Republican Parties. The Green New Deal is based on the New Deal that helped us out of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Green New Deal can create 25 million durable, green, living wage jobs. The Green New Deal reduces our military budget by at least 50%. Greens support amending our Constitution to make clear that corporations are not persons and money is not speech. Greens will replace big money control of elections with full public financing and free and equal access to the airwaves. We will shift to an economy in which more than 80% of our electricity is generated renewably. We will act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 95% by 2050. We will end government subsidies and tax breaks for the fossil fuel, fracking, and nuclear industries. Greens wage the politics of courage. Dr. Martin Luther King wrote, “There is nothing wrong with a traffic law which says you have to stop for a redlight. But when a fire is raging, the fire truck goes through that red light, and normal traffic had better get out of its way. Or when a man is bleeding to death, the ambulance goes through those red lights at top speed. There is a fire raging…for the poor of this society. Disinherited people all over the world are bleeding to death from deep social and economic wounds. They need brigades of ambulance drivers who will have to ignore the red lights of the present system until the emergency is solved.” Greens believe a fire is raging in the United States. We register Green, vote Green and run as Green candidates because we need a brigade of ambulance drivers now in our country. If we want to end the emergency, halt climate change and stop the crisis of poverty, we must choose non-violent civil disobedience. Greens believe that the acts of registering Green, voting Green, and running Green are forms of non-violent disobedience. Please join us. Please endorse Jill Stein for President. Register Green Party. Vote Green Party. Run Green Party. Help us open the presidential debates to all presidential candidates on the ballot. Vote Jill Stein for President. Jillstein.org maringreens.org
Among those arrested along with Dr. Stein and Ms. Honkala were labor lawyer James Moran and Sister Margaret McKenna of the Medical Mission Sisters. An attorney who supports civil disobedience cases is providing legal assistance. All of those arrested are expected to come before a judge on Thursday afternoon. At that time bail will either be set or they will be released on their own recognizance. The protest was originally called for by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign to demand that the giant mortgage company halt foreclosure proceedings against two Philadelphia residents in danger of losing their homes. Stein joined the protest after Cheri Honkala joined her as Stein’s vice presidential running mate. Honkala, a former homeless single mother, has been confronting banks and mortgage companies for decades demanding that they adopt policies that will, “keep families in their homes.” At 1pm today about 50 protestors gathered outside of Fannie Mae’s Philadelphia headquarters. They heard from Miss Fran and Rhonda Lancaster, the heads of two families evicted by Fannie Mae in its refusal to negotiate an alternative to foreclosure. Fannie Mae executive Zach Oppenheimer had previously promised in writing to meet with the two women in order to discuss other options. Yet no followup meeting ever took place, and so protestors today entered the Fannie Mae building and vowed to stay until Mr. Oppenheimer’s word was honored. At about 2:30pm, an hour after entering the building and beginning a sitdown protest, lower level Fannie Mae officials agreed to meet with Miss Fran and Ms. Lancaster. These meetings proved inconclusive, ending only with promises of more meetings. With Philadelphia police on hand with six paddy wagons and plainclothesman, a smaller subset of protestors stayed inside the building and risked arrest. Five were arrested, including Dr. Stein and Ms. Honkala.
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